Salvation Army

National Capital Area Command

2626 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20037

The Fund has received a letter, addressed to Robert McClenon, President, Special Endowment, at 5420 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 322, from the Salvation Army of the National Capital Area.

The letter states, in part: “We know that crisis, hunger, and homelessness can happen anytime, to virtually anyone which is why we exist. We are there for people at their point of need. We provide a continuum of social services to prevent homelessness. These services include emergency financial assistance, life changing rehabilitation services, transitional housing for female ex-offenders and young women with children, food and nutrition services to prevent hunger, counseling services, youth services, and worship services.” The types of services are a mixture of services that the Fund may support and that the Fund may not support. In particular, Bylaw 3F5 forbids contributions for relief of individual suffering. Worship services appear to be forbidden by Bylaw 3F4 (religion or moral reform). It appears that much, although not all, of the Salvation Army’s work is relief of individual suffering.

I suggest that the Salvation Army be categorized as “not selected due to eligibility concerns” from both the General Endowment and the Special Endowment.

Respectfully submitted,

Robert McClenon

25 March 2012